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"I'm free but I don't feel free," said Mohamed Abdi Urad,
chief editor of Yool, a critical
weekly published in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland. Mohamed had
just been released on May 22 after a week in detention at Hargeisa Central
Police Station. His crime?
"I have no idea," he said. Mohamed had attempted to cover a deadly skirmish
between civilians and a military unit over a land dispute in the eastern part
of the capital, Hargeisa. "The Interior Minister just saw me walking towards
the scene and ordered his men to arrest me," he said. A few days later, police
released Mohamed unconditionally and without charge.

New York, September 12, 2011--Authorities in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland are
obstructing independent journalists from covering government politics, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Four reporters have been harassed and arrested while on assignment since early
September.